Employer: Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: The Health Informatics Service - Head Office
Town: Elland
Salary: £29,970 - £36,483 per annum, pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 21/03/2025 23:59
Interview date: 10/04/2025
Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust (CHFT) is committed to equal opportunities and welcomes applications from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics.
We are committed to recruiting to our values. Leading One Culture of Care underpins our values by creating an environment, tone, and behaviours across all parts of the Trust that are fundamentally rooted in compassionate care.
We are open to considering a wide range of flexible working arrangements. There are opportunities to flex the days of the week, hours and times of work, and place of work including: part-time, job-share, flexible working hours, and the possibility to work from home when appropriate.
Job overview
The Senior Clinical Coder is responsible for the extraction and analysis of complex clinical information from clinical documents/systems relating to a patient’s episode in hospital. The Clinical Coder translates the medical terminology applying relevant national clinical coding standards into codes from classifications used nationally and internationally and records these as a key component of the patient’s clinical history.
The post holder will have achieved the national qualification of Accredited Clinical Coder and will continue to contribute towards their own working plan and training on specialty workshops and refresher courses. The post holder is expected to support the Clinical Coding Team to meet high standards of accuracy, timeliness, and completeness of the Trust's Clinical Coded data.
Main duties of the job
* Analyse highly complex clinical terms from EPR and other clinical source systems using judgement where details may be complex or conflicting.
* Provide consistently recorded data to well-defined national standards.
* Check data quality and record necessary amendments.
* Liaise with various staff throughout the trust to facilitate timely, complete, and accurate clinical source documentation for coding.
* Have a proactive and positive approach in working with consultants and clinicians.
* Support the Senior Clinical Coding team to ensure continuous improvement in the quality of clinical data.
* Provide complex specialist coding advice for financial and audit purposes.
* Manage own workload, without direct supervision, to ensure all relevant inpatient episodes are coded within the agreed deadlines.
* Keep up to date with any changes to clinical coding standards and attend training.
* Use Trust clinical systems to maintain coding accuracy and facilitate completion of all coding within the timescales specified.
Person Specification
Qualifications/Training
* Accredited Clinical Coder (ACC) Qualification.
* Educated to degree level or equivalent experience in the specialist field of Clinical Coding.
* GCSE English, Maths and Science or equivalent A to C.
* AMSPA or equivalent in Medical Terminology.
* IT literate including use of the internet for research.
* Commitment to continuing professional development.
* Willingness to complete the Clinical Coding Mandatory Standards Refresher Training Course.
* Willingness to attend CHFT in-house training.
* Working towards Clinical Coding Audit/Trainer qualification.
* Microsoft Office qualification or equivalent.
Knowledge, Experience and Expertise
* Experience of working in a Patient Services environment.
* Experience of Medical Terminology.
* NHS experience.
* Working as part of a team and supporting others.
* In-depth knowledge of ICD10 and OPCS.
* Extensive proven experience of coding all clinical specialities.
* Awareness of Freedom of Information Act.
* Ability to demonstrate judgment skills to translate complex clinical diagnoses and procedures into accurate codes.
* Understanding of Information Governance and confidentiality.
* Ability to prioritise activities according to deadlines.
* Excellent attention to detail.
Our vision is to provide One Culture of Care for one another in order that we can provide compassionate care for the people who use our services. We are passionate about creating a workplace where we work together to get results, encouraging colleagues to have their say, in order to co-create the change we want to see. Reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled applicants.
If you have any questions please contact ask.recruitment@cht.nhs.uk for assistance.
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